Improvement in cooking-stoves



D. STUART.

Cooking Stove. No. 111,698. Patented Feb. 7, 1871.

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Letters Patent No. 111,698, dated February 7, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN' COOKING -STOVES.

The Schedule referred to intheseLetteIs Patent and making part of the same.

I, DAVID STUART, of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Cooking-Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of the Invention.

My invention consists of a cooking-stove having the front end of the oven and the front end of the lower flue depressed, so as to increase the capacity of that portion of the oven which has heretofore been of,

ordinary flat-top cooking-stoves, in which, however,

the bottom of the oven is of a uniform level'throughout, so that the portion of the oven below the fireplace is necessarily contracted in height, and consequently its-use for baking purposes is of a'very re stricted character.

In order to remedy this defect I depress the oven at w, as shown in the drawing, thereby increasing the height and culinary oapacityat the point where it has hitherto been so low as to admit articles of the smallest class only.

The bottom plate H and lower flue I has a corresponding depression, so that the products of combustion instead of taking a direct course along the lower flue, as usual in ordinary cooking-stoves, meetwith a slight check at y, and I have found that this slight interruption of thedirect course of the products of combustion induces a more uniform heating of the oven.

Claim.

A cooking-stove, having the front end of the oven and the front end of the lower flue depressed. as set \Vitnesses:

WM. A. STE L, F. B. RICHARDS. 

